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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Colorado Supreme Court / Joined 1956 / Served to 1964

Frank H. Hall

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Frank H. Hall was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1956. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1890–1964
Tenure: 1956–1964 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1956	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Colorado College
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hall authored 301 published opinions for the court (1957–1964), plus 31 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Smith v. Miller (112 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 176 of these were attributed to Hall by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1963	Smith v. Miller· Dissent†	384 P.2d 738	112
1964	Lewis v. Buckskin Joe's, Inc.	396 P.2d 933	70
1957	Archina v. People	307 P.2d 1083	68
1959	Lucas v. District Court· Dissent†	345 P.2d 1064	60
1957	Conway-Bogue Realty Investment Co. v. Denver Bar Ass'n†	135 Colo. 398	51
1957	Industrial Commission v. Havens· Dissent†	314 P.2d 698	48
1957	Geer v. Stathopulos· Dissent†	309 P.2d 606	48
1964	White v. Anderson· Concurrence†	394 P.2d 333	46
1963	Trevarton v. Trevarton	378 P.2d 640	46
1962	Leonard v. People· Dissent†	369 P.2d 54	43
1958	Markiewicz v. Black	330 P.2d 539	40
1959	People v. Yoshio Futamata· Dissent†	343 P.2d 1058	37
1958	Prinster v. District Court of Seventh Judicial Dist.	325 P.2d 938	36
1957	Colorado Racing Commission v. Brush Racing Ass'n	316 P.2d 582	31
1963	Stilley v. Tinsley	385 P.2d 677	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 343 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Colorado Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Frank H. Hall on?: Frank H. Hall was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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7 years on the Colorado Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).